cliff. the last hour of trading, last session of the year. one hour left to trade. president obama says this afternoon the progress is being made, but there is still plenty of work to be done but the stocks right now. very close to session highs, up 137 points. the nasdaq better by 58. the s&p 500 up one and a half points to low 20 points. not bad at all. the market started ticking off a little after noon when investors get worried that the president was going to speak at 130. in a tape that is pretty soon to begin, very few volumes speculated, it will to push the market higher. here you go. the dow had its intraday high of 30 minutes before the president spoke. right now of 131 points. the market moving mostly to the upside. the blue chips, hewlett-packard up above four 1/4%. $14.26 per share, but down about 45% for the year. economy names like caterpillar in the green, up three in the third. a similar story for ge up to one 1/4. so these are widely held stocks that could be in your portfol